Meet Our Advisors: Clint O’Brien

Grew up in: Philadelphia

Education: Graduated from Brown University and then earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Professional background: “(I) worked seven years as a news reporter, including two years (1991-1993) as a Moscow correspondent for Newsweek and The Associated Press, covering the breakup of the USSR and its aftermath. Previously won awards for investigative journalism, covering environmental issues from the Washington, D.C., bureau of a chain of daily newspapers in the Midwest. After getting my MBA in 1995, I worked two-plus years in book publishing in New York, for the Bertelsmann-owned book publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell, which later acquired (and now goes by the name of) Random House.